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The what class?

It’s a little of everything. Walk rate is down so his wRC+/OPS+ is down. Base running is worse. Fielding is worse. Plus he played less CF this year, so he loses a couple tick for positional. FWIW, Fangraphs has him at 4.0 last year and 2.9 this year.

I think he’s referring to a passionate episode in the locker room where things gets smashed with bats and players yell and drop f-bombs to the media.

There’s only a ghost of a chance we trade someone as valuable as Carpenter over the winter, but there’s no chance Riley, who’s also controllable for the next four years, gets traded as a sell-low dumping, unless Harris gets fired and Ilitch brings in someone else to conduct a full-on rebuild.

We don’t have to worry about paying to retain Carpenter, since he is controllable through his age 32 season.

The front office went around A.J. directly to the players because they knew he wouldn’t play.

I pulled muscles a lot to Cheryl Tigers back in the day.

It was explicitly stated in the Frontline documentary about the scandal. Anyone interested in seeing for themselves can see the whole thing for free right here.

Actually, I don’t disagree with this at all.

Maybe they keep losing scriptwriters to better paying jobs.

If people think there’s no way they would ever come after us here, in this forum, for things we’re saying today—and stretching ten years into the past—then they’re just whistling past the graveyard. Even MTS’s archives exist somewhere. If the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine can make snapshots available to us, then someone has the whole thing. So it’s probably too late for a lot of us. Oh well—we might as well as continue to hang together before we hang separately.

I don’t understand. Did I miss something here?

This baseball is a humbug game.

Yeah, strikeouts are bad.

I don’t think Sweeney is going to be on the playoff roster. But then, if we don’t start winning again soon, ain’t no one on this team gonna be on a playoff roster.

Jesus even when we get a lead off runner on, Braves get a tailor-made DP on the next pitch on a hit up the middle. Then the third baseman makes a diving play on a sharply-hit ball headed for left field to get the third out. When that happens to you, you’re not going to win the game.

Hinch wasn’t one of the cheaters. He simply took the fall for it while the players who worked directly with the front office on it went scot free.

Are Hank Greenberg and Rudy York the only two before this?

Holy ****, a fourth ambulance chaser advertiser?? Someone called “Ven Johnson”?? Detroit’s economy obviously still sucks ass.

What, another ambulance chaser advertising on Tiger games? That’s three now, isn’t it? Who the **** is Mike Morse?

Goddammit, was Javy actually pulling up as he was crossing first and getting thrown out by a hair? Did he have a prop bet on the bat bat?

When the Tigers are getting their asses handed or them like this, those city connects look doubly stupid on them.

I remember that, and it's paved the way for the next charge of same. The argument, specious as it is, has a long history in this country: when black people boycotted offending companies during the wane of the Jim Crow era, they were also referred to as "economic terrorists".

WGN-TV, the once-vaunted once-superstation once owned by the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper), is now owned by Nexstar. How the mighty have fallen. Not unlike WJR-AM.